Organization of agonistic vocalizations in black-chinned hummingbirds

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 557-566

  Rusch, Kathryn M ^a   Pytte, Carolyn L ^a,b   Ficken, Millicent S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agonistic vocalizations; Archilochus alexandri; Black chinned Hummingbird; calls; syntax

Indexed keywords

ANNA; ARCHILOCHUS ALEXANDRI; AVES; CALYPTE ANNA; GALLIFORMES; PARIDAE; PARUS; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 0029850412     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369568     Document Type: Article

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